Across his 25 years with the 280SL, Ian has shared the cockpit with many navigators including the late Nigel Raeburn, winner ...

As the three pedals of rowing your own fade into a bygone era, manual-equipped unicorns such as the BMW 850CSi and US-only E60 M5 are gaining cult status, while aftermarket conversions are ...

A mid-engined, 12-cylinder supercar is the peak of Ferrari today, but at first the marque was playing catch-up. Our Charlie ...

The adventure had begun so light-heartedly 12 years earlier. A charismatic tycoon who had made his fortune from refrigerators and heating equipment before the war, Rivolta rode the wave of the Italian ...

The lightweight pistons, when adopted at Bentley’s behest by the likes of Rolls-Royce and Sunbeam for their aero engines, played an important part in the British war effort from 1914-1918 – an ...

Too many Austin A60 and FB Victor drivers, however, remained unconvinced by the Consul-Classic’s genuine advantages of a vast boot and quad headlamps, on the grounds that the Ford’s quasi-Detroit ...

But I’m right about a few things. The engineers and designers were hugely talented and enthusiastic and, above all, able to work very quickly with very limited resources. The result of the quickfire ...

Those first Lancers and Galants were American in their styling and conventional in their engineering, although the company’s ‘silent shaft’ engines provided impressive smoothness compared with rivals ...

While Bugatti, Delage, Adler and Alfa Romeo produced slippery closed cars from the mid-’30s, there was only a handful of independent streamlined designs produced across the English Channel. Arguably ...

Few automotive reunions are as poignant, and we are the first to capture the moment. That both the 1904 Darracq 10/12hp, aka ‘Genevieve’, and the 1905 Spyker 12/16hp Double Phaeton alongside it were ...

Under the bonnet, the final development of WO Bentley’s handsome overhead-cam, twin-plug ‘four’ was tuned with a lightened flywheel, increased 6.3:1 compression, drilled valve-spring caps, lighter ...

At the heart of the square-rigged saloon was the wonderfully robust 1570cc all-alloy twin-cam engine, advanced five-speed gearbox and impressive brakes, but Sattaʼs formula went beyond sporty appeal.